Latest Aaldef Podcast Episodes
Ep 51: Numbers don't lie: Trump Virus Spawns Anti-Asian American Hate
Emil Amok's Takeout from Emil Guillermo Media - March 27, 2020 05:18 - 29 minutes ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsAfter a long hiatus, Emil Amok's Takeout is back with a new show. And all because of the virus. The threat to Asian Americans isn't Covid-19. It's POTUS-45, Donald Trump. His insistence on calling the virus "The Chinese Virus," and now "The Wuhan Virus" is only causing a new wave of anti-Asian A...
Ep.31 : Emil Amok: Crazy Rich Asians is a movie; Crazy Asians is a social problem
Emil Amok's Takeout from Emil Guillermo Media - November 30, 2018 06:03 - 47 minutes ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsDr. Helen Hsu, the president of the Asian American Psychological Association talks to Emil about the status of mental health in the AAPI community. We're not accessing services. We are trying to DIY mental health. And it's a big mistake. Dr. Hsu talks about how things are changing to empower...
Ep. 101: Emil Amok: Crazy Rich Asians is a movie; Crazy Asians is a social problem
Emil Amok's Takeout from Emil Guillermo Media - November 30, 2018 06:03 - 47 minutes ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsDr. Helen Hsu, the president of the Asian American Psychological Association talks to Emil about the status of mental health in the AAPI community. We're not accessing services. We are trying to DIY mental health. And it's a big mistake. Dr. Hsu talks about how things are changing to empower...
Ep 29 Emil Amok's Takeout: A Student Striker who became a Professor
Emil Amok's Takeout from Emil Guillermo Media - April 03, 2018 00:52 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsEmil Guillermo: The striker who became the teacher—Podcast with Asian American Studies professor Daniel P. Gonzales on how ethnic studies was birthed at SF State University Over the Easter weekend, Donald Trump was resurrecting his anti-immigrant rhetoric in tweets and off-handed comments....
Emil Amok's Takeout - California's David Chiu on why the state will stand up to the feds and fight for immigrants' rights
Emil Amok's Takeout from Emil Guillermo Media - March 10, 2018 02:31 - 26 minutes ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsEmil Guillermo: California Legislator David Chiu on the most Asian American state being sued by the Feds; calls Trump “the most xenophobic and racist president in modern history.” Stormy Daniels, Kim Jong Un, and trade-war inducing tariffs? The Trump administration is a never-ending three-ri...
Ep.27: Bipartisan push gets Filipino WW2 Vets a Congressional Gold Medal; but for Trump, a bipar approach on DACA divides GOP
Emil Amok's Takeout from Emil Guillermo Media - September 15, 2017 09:50 - 55 minutes ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsA bipartisan effort in Congress may not work on DACA. But it has worked on winning a Congressional Gold Medal for all Filipino Veterans of World War 2. Emil Guillermo talks with Ben DeGuzman about how the resolution was passed and approved Oct. 25 as the day the first 1,000 vets get medals. ...
Ep.26: All You Need to Know About DACA; Plus Janet Napolitano's UC lawsuit to save it.
Emil Amok's Takeout from Emil Guillermo Media - September 09, 2017 23:18 - 42 minutes ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsSee Emil's latest at http://www.aaldef.org/blog This podcast on Emil's DACA take, plus clips from the news call of UC President Janet Napolitano on the lawsuit seeking to protect DACA recipients. Also Tom Wong of UCSD talks about his survey of DACA recipients And Luis Quiroz, one DACA...
Ep25: Evacuee, Katrina Survivor, Trump Supporter: 3 Asian Americans on Harvey
Emil Amok's Takeout from Emil Guillermo Media - September 03, 2017 08:14 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsCheck out the blog at http:/www.aaldef.org/blog You can donate to help Asian American Harvey victims here: http://www.ocahouston.org/harveyrelief Emil Guillermo interviews: Jessica Kong, who evacuated from her home with her brother and mother the first Monday after the storm hit. Stev...
Ep.24: Harvey Hits Houston; Ed Gor of Chinese American Citizens Alliance talks about impacts on Asian Americans there.
Emil Amok's Takeout from Emil Guillermo Media - August 28, 2017 07:50 - 33 minutes ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsEd Gor is a Houston resident and the president of the nation's oldest Asian American civil rights organization. Gor talks with Emil Guillermo about Harvey and how Asian Americans are impacted. Emil also discusses how President Trump was slow to show any real compassion or empathy for those ...
Ep23: Filmmaker Curtis Choy on The Fall of The I Hotel, 40 years later;
Emil Amok's Takeout from Emil Guillermo Media - August 03, 2017 23:33 - 50 minutes ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsCome by the I-Hotel/Manilatown Center, 868 Kearney St. SF,CA Friday, Aug. 4 to commemorate the 40th Anniversary of the eviction. Emil will moderate a panel and Curtis Choy will screen his film. 6pm - 9pm. PDT See more at http://www.aaldef.org/blog See more about Curtis Choy, direc...
Ep.22: Eddie Huang,"Fresh Off the Boat" Memoirist on Race and Identity, an AAJA convention highlight
Emil Amok's Takeout from Emil Guillermo Media - July 30, 2017 16:49 - 36 minutes ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsSee more info at http://www.aaldef.org/blog Eddie Huang at the Asian American Journalists Association convention. Speaks candidly on race and identity. See previous story on Huang: http://aaldef.org/blog/emil-guillermo-is-fresh-off-the-boat-historical-or-the-taming-of-eddie-huang.html ...
Ep.21:Emil Amok's Takeout--B.D. Wong's Emmy nomination for trans character in "Mr.Robot," cool? Or uncool?
Emil Amok's Takeout from Emil Guillermo Media - July 26, 2017 10:17 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsSee more about my conversation with B.D. Wong at http://www.aaldef.org/blog Emil's bio: Emil Guillermo wrote for almost 15 years his "Amok" column for AsianWeek, which was the largest English language Asian American newsweekly in the nation. "Amok" was considered the most...
Ep.20: Trump Jr., The Slants, and Saying No to Hawaii 5-0
Emil Amok's Takeout from Emil Guillermo Media - July 12, 2017 00:28 - 50 minutes ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsEmil Guillermo: The Slants' Simon Tam speaks candidly on PODCAST: "The cure for hate speech isn't censorship...let communities decide, not government." July 10, 2017 6:58 PM It's been a big summer for Simon Tam, musician and founder of the Slants, now trademarked, reappropriated, and unan...
Ep.19: Getting Fringey! Emil's "Amok Monologues" at the San Diego International Fringe Festival
Emil Amok's Takeout from Emil Guillermo Media - June 29, 2017 21:09 - 33 minutes ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsI'm on the road, but I can still podcast. My "Amok Monologues" are at the San Diego International Fringe Festival. Get your tickets for the final show Thursday, the 29th at 10:30pm. ( I know, last minute, but then I'm less self-absorbed than normal). Or buy a ticket and I will send you an ...
Ep18. Helen Zia, 35 years after Vincent Chin Hate Crime; Plus, What Chin Killer Ronald Ebens Told Me
Emil Amok's Takeout from Emil Guillermo Media - June 19, 2017 05:08 - 34 minutes ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsChin estate trustee provides insight on how difficult it was to get justice for Vincent Chin. The Asian American community was small and reluctant to speak up. Even civil rights organizations weren't sure about Asian Americans in a black and white world. It may also explain why Asian Americans h...
Ep.17 Emil's Father's Day Essay; Karthick Ramakrishnan on Asian Americans and South Asians
Emil Amok's Takeout from Emil Guillermo Media - June 17, 2017 04:42 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsShow Log 00: Open, intros, Emil comments on news, including the week's gun violence and the NBA champion Golden State Warriors. 14:35 Karthick Ramakrishnan, UC Riverside, School of Public Policy; AAPI Data 15:52 Interview begins 1:01:20 On bias against South Asians 1:02:4...
Ep.16: Asian American Islamophobia? Research of Jennifer Lee and Karthick Ramakrishnan; Reaction from Pawan Dhingra.
Emil Amok's Takeout from Emil Guillermo Media - June 07, 2017 07:06 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsEp.16: Emil Amok's Takeout---Show Log :00-show open; Emil's take on Trump's tweets, climate change accord, Kathy Griffin, James Comey, Trump as hood ornament. 15::40 The NAAS Survey's finding that Asian Americans often exclude South Asians, Central Asians. Our xenophobia problem. 17:00 Pro...
Ep.15: Celestino Almeda, Filipino WW2 Vet still fighting for Equity; Martial Law?; Theo Gonzalves, AAAS president-elect
Emil Amok's Takeout from Emil Guillermo Media - May 27, 2017 17:16 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsShow log Emil Amok’s Takeout Ep. 15 :00 Emil’s opening rap 1:46 San Diego Fringe Festival and SF Marsh shows 2:30 Coming up intros of top stories 5:05 What made me go amok this week 6:25 Martial Law in the Philippines? Oh, just “Partial Martial”? 18:12 Intro Celestino Almeda, the 1...
Ep.14: Randall Park of "Fresh Off The Boat" gets an APAICS award in DC; Emil gives speeches; Trump's bad week
Emil Amok's Takeout from Emil Guillermo Media - May 22, 2017 09:40 - 32 minutes ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsLinks to columns touched on by Emil in Podcast No.14: http://aaldef.org/blog/emil-guillermo-last-fable-day-asian-americans-emmy-snub-fresh-off-the-boat-easter-xua.html http://aaldef.org/blog/emil-guillermo-is-fresh-off-the-boat-historical-or-the-taming-of-eddie-huang.html http://aal...
Ep.13: "Mommy I Need you," a Mother's Day Memory; and more on Trump/Nixon
Emil Amok's Takeout from Emil Guillermo Media - May 12, 2017 18:52 - 42 minutes ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsEp. 13 Emil Guillermo: "Mommy, I need you," a Mother's Day podcast memory; plus Trump grows more Nixony by the day May 12, 2017 3:04 PM From the AALDEF blog: http://aaldef.org/blog/emil-guillermo-mommy-i-need-you-mothers-day-podcast-trump-nixon.html I wrote an essay about my mothe...
Ep.12:TrumpNoCare vote;Corky Lee's Photo Justice and the Golden Spike; Duterte
Emil Amok's Takeout from Emil Guillermo Media - May 04, 2017 22:11 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsSHOW LOG: :00 Opening rap 3:25 Health care vote 8:15 Duterte and Trump 11:42 Corky Lee intro 18:20 Corky Lee interview From the blog at http://www.aaldef.orgblog By Emil Amok My late mother, the wise Filipina, would always say, "Your health is your wealth." And when her healt...
Ep.11: Trump's 100, LA Riots, 9,125 days later; Chinese Takeouts Discriminated in Philly; In Ho Oh, Stephen Guillermo, forgiveness
Emil Amok's Takeout from Emil Guillermo Media - April 28, 2017 06:56 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsShow notes (index at bottom) Korean American community leader John Lim from the KCCD/MyKoreanStory.org series on "Sa-I-Gu." Go to www.saigue429.org. Also, how Chinese Takeouts in Philadelphia are being discriminated against in another story that involves Asians and African Americans pitted aga...
Ep.10: Environmental Racism and Earth Day, Trump's 100, Killing the O'Reilly Factor, Miya Yoshitani, APEN
Emil Amok's Takeout from Emil Guillermo Media - April 22, 2017 08:50 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsDon't tell the Laotian community in Richmond, CA that environmental racism doesn't exist. They've been fighting corporate polluters and making them listen to their voices for years. Miya Yoshitani of the Asian Pacific Environmental Network (APEN) talks about their story fpr Earth Day as an inspi...
Ep.9: Dr.David Dao's Dragging; United's failing; Dao's lawyer Tom Demetrio; Daughter, Crystal Pepper; And Mimi Hwang on the Louisville Asian American community near where Dr. Dao lives and works.
Emil Amok's Takeout from Emil Guillermo Media - April 14, 2017 05:55 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsEmil Guillermo: Dragged United passenger Dr. David Dao is no Rosa Parks, but he could be a poster boy for all consumers April 13, 2017 4:45 PM When the U.S. drops the "mother of all bombs" on Afghanistan as a worldwide message, it's time for a little sobering perspective. Maybe we coul...
Ep.8: Trump's Cruise Missile Viagra; Bataan Death March 75 years later;"Ghost in the Shell" worse than whitewashed
Emil Amok's Takeout from Emil Guillermo Media - April 07, 2017 08:27 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsEmil Amok's Takeout is the podcast/radio program of award-winning journalist and commentator Emil Guillermo. Read his takes on the Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund blog at http://www.aaldef.org/blog And at http://www.amok.com On this episode, he is astonished by the sudden ...
Ep.7 Surviving Japanese Latin Americans Kidnapped During WW2 Seek U.S. Apology and more; Plus, Trumpcare's Defeat
Emil Amok's Takeout from Emil Guillermo Media - March 29, 2017 04:00 - 50 minutes ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsYou might know about Japanese Americans incarcerated during WWII, but did you know the U.S. also rounded up Japanese Latin Americans, mostly from Peru. They were held and imprisoned in the U.S. to be used as pawns of war. About 2,200 were rounded up. On Emil Amok's Takeout, I talk to two su...
Ep.6: Emil talks w/Profs.Kurashige &Lawsin suing UMichigan for Discrimination
Emil Amok's Takeout from Emil Guillermo Media - March 22, 2017 08:42 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsIn an exclusive interview, host Emil Guillermo talks with Profs. Scott Kurashige and Emily Lawsin about their discrimination lawsuit filed against the University of Michigan. See more on the Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund blog, http://www.aaldef.org/blog The lawsuit paints ...
Ep.5: Asian Americans beat back Travel Ban 2.0 as Native Hawaiian Judge rules; Jenn Fang on Kuchibhotla, Vincent Chin and Islamophobia
Emil Amok's Takeout from Emil Guillermo Media - March 16, 2017 18:22 - 46 minutes ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsWith just hours before the Travel Ban 2.0 was set to take effect, federal judge Derrick Kahala Watson in Honolulu halted it nationwide by issuing a temporary restraining order to the listed plaintiffs: the State of Hawaii and Ismail Elshikh. You heard a lot about Hawaii, but not much about Elsh...
Ep.4:TravelBan2.0 Still a Muslim Ban with a kick; Deepa Iyer: "People are already living in fear."
Emil Amok's Takeout from Emil Guillermo Media - March 08, 2017 01:00 - 36 minutes ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsIn Emil Amok's Takeout, host Emil Guillermo, writer on the Asian American Legal Defense and Educaton Fund blog (www.aaldef.org/blog) talks about the new travel ban. Even sanitized, the ban is an attack on Muslims and Muslim Americans. Beyond the travelers it specifically bans, it authorizes...
Ep.3: Undocumented, undaunted; Emil Amok talks to Asian Am.DACA recipient invited to see Trump speech
Emil Amok's Takeout from Emil Guillermo Media - March 04, 2017 23:58 - 34 minutes ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsIt's not every day an undocumented person gets to sit in the chamber of power and listen to the president. But that's what happened to Angie Kim. Emil Guillermo talks with Kim, a community organizing fellow at the Minkwon Center for Community Action in Flushing, Queens, NY. Brought to the ...
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